Seafood

Pet foods

Technologies

Growing meat in the lab involves cell culture and tissue engineering techniques for growing muscle fibers, fat and blood vessels, from stem cells or immortalized cell lines. Synthetic biology and genetic engineering of plants or microbes can be used to produce growth factors and nutrients needed to support growth of these tissues.

Clean eggs

Other cultured materials

Companies that use cellular agriculture to produce materials like silk and leather, and companies that produce ingredients for food and food processing like protein flavors, fillers, coloring, etc. Companies that produce blood, nutrients and growth factors contribute to both cultured meat and pharmaceutical industries.

Supporting the production cultured or plant-based products

Many academic research groups, non-profit groups and business incubators are involved in the development and promotion of cultured meat, plant-based meat and other animal-free products. Culturing systems and food processing facilities support various stages in manufacturing these new animal-free proteins and products.